How a children's arts education nonprofit, the Foundation for New American Art, is bringing the world a little closer together by combining two international languages Soccer & Art into one fun and intriguing art drawing lesson for kids!
Phoebe Legere's Foundation for New American Art has created a compelling and fun way to teach children how to draw...
The Arts Education Nonprofit 501c3 is bringing the world a little closer together using the two most international languages:
Soccer & Art.
The Foundation for New American Art (FNAA) is hosting an event on
June 28th inviting children to draw/design their dream soccer ball!
The World Cup Of Drawing A Soccer Ball
FNAA launches a citywide arts initiative celebrating the geometry, beauty, and global spirit of soccer through drawing and painting.
The Event Is:
—FREE
—OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
—EDUCATIONAL
—CITYWIDE
—ALL AGES WELCOME
Four events will be held through New York City to select Regional Winners. The World Cup Of Drawing A Soccer Ball Championship Finals will be held on June 28 at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 11 AM.
Prizes are awarded at all stages of the competition: Grand Prize winner
Takes Home Honors & An Official FIFA Soccer Ball.
A link to the complete press release can be found on the website:
https://foundationfornewamericanart.org/press-release-world-cup-drawing.html
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FOUNDATION FOR NEW AMERICAN ART
55 Bethune Street, Westbeth Art Center, New York, NY
www.foundationfornewamericanart.org
FOR IMMEDiATE RELEASE:
MEDIA CONTACT
Phoebe Legere
212 777 7052
phoebe@foundationfornewamericanart.org
World Cup of Drawing a Soccer Ball
The Foundation for New American Art Launches a Citywide Arts Initiative Celebrating the Geometry, Beauty, and Global Spirit of Soccer
New York, NY — The Foundation for New American Art is proud to present The World Cup of Drawing a Soccer Ball — a free, citywide arts initiative celebrating the geometry, beauty, movement, and global spirit of soccer through drawing and painting.
As FIFA brings the excitement of world soccer to New York, young artists across the city are invited to participate in public art events exploring the essential symbol of the game: the soccer ball itself.
What does soccer have to do with art? Everything.
“To draw a soccer ball accurately, students must understand the geometry of a sphere, perspective, highlights, shadow, curvature, motion, and spatial relationships. Through art, children discover the principles behind aerodynamics, physics, engineering, and the extraordinary mechanics of the human body in motion,” says Foundation for New American Art Founder & Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Artist Phoebe Legere.
At Foundation for New American Art workshops, children learn “rocket science the fun way” — through observation, creativity, and the joy of painting. The program is free and open to all, with a particular commitment to youth from immigrant communities and neighborhoods with limited access to arts education.
Participants compete in regional events held across Manhattan, Queens, Poughkeepsie, and Brooklyn — see sidebar left for dates and times of regional competitions — culminating in a championship final at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, June 28, where finalists will compete for the title of World Cup of Drawing a Soccer Ball Champion.
GRAND PRIZE
- Official FIFA Soccer Ball
- Championship Trophy
- Champions Exhibition at the New American Art Gallery
EVENT SCHEDULE
May 30 Queens Regional
The T Building, Jamaica, Queens · 1:00 PM
June 3 Manhattan Regional
Foundation for New American Art Gallery · 55 Bethune Street, Westbeth Art Center · 3:30 PM
Mid-Hudson Regional
Winner already selected · Poughkeepsie
June 28 Championship Finals
Waterfront Museum · Red Hook, Brooklyn · 11:00 AM
ABOUT FOUNDATION FOR NEW AMERICAN ART
The Foundation for New American Art is a nonprofit organization providing free arts and music education to children with limited access to the arts, while supporting New York City artists through exhibitions, performances, and public cultural programming.
Painters, animators, architects, athletes — all begin the same way: learning to read the field, see the opening, and move.
www.foundationfornewamericanart.org
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The artists of tomorrow begin here.
